*이 기사는 2017. 10. 19.에 작성되었으며, 'Forbes'는 미국의 유명한 출판 및 미디어 기업. 경제 잡지이며, 해당 잡지는 '세계에서 가장 가치 있는 50개 스포츠팀', 기업 순위 등과 같은 것을 발표하는 것으로 일반인들에게 알려져 있으며 국내 언론에서도 종종 인용한다.
Jake Adelstein Contributor
Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike is a remarkable woman and a politician; unfortunately, she also has a remarkable prejudice against Japan’s Korean residents and other foreigners that make some question her fitness as a leader on the international stage. In such acts as tacitly denying that thousands of Koreans were slaughtered by Japanese mobs in 1923, and demanding opposition to voting rights for Japan’s resident foreigners—-she has exhibited a streak of xenophobia and revisionism that is troubling.
Koike, who had a promising career as a foreign correspondent, entered politics in 1992. Last year, she became Tokyo’s first female governor. On September 25th, hours before Prime Minister Shinzo Abe called for lower house elections, she founded a new national political party, Kibo No To (希望の党）aka The Hope Party.
She has promoted herself as an environmental activist and "tolerant conservative" but in her political career has served as an executive member of the political arm of extreme right-wing Shinto cult and political lobby, Nippon Kaigi. Newsweek Japan, in last week’s cover story, dubbed her a “pushy hard-headed nationalist.”
Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike is a remarkable woman and a politician; unfortunately, she also has a remarkable prejudice against Japan’s Korean residents and other foreigners that make some question her fitness as a leader on the international stage. In such acts as tacitly denying that thousands of Koreans were slaughtered by Japanese mobs in 1923, and demanding opposition to voting rights for Japan’s resident foreigners—-she has exhibited a streak of xenophobia and revisionism that is troubling.
Koike, who had a promising career as a foreign correspondent, entered politics in 1992. Last year, she became Tokyo’s first female governor. On September 25th, hours before Prime Minister Shinzo Abe called for lower house elections, she founded a new national political party, Kibo No To (希望の党）aka The Hope Party.
출처 : Forbes
